Atikh Rashid

Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said in the state assembly that a standard operating procedure would be formed before March 31 to ensure such incidents do not happen in future.

Ajit Pawar said in the state assembly that a standard operating procedure (SOP) will be formalised before March 31 to ensure such "unfortunate incidents" do not happen at Covid hospitals in future.

Pune schools and colleges will also remain closed till March 14.

The decision was taken at a review meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday.

Several other decisions were also taken at the meeting, most of which include stringent implementation of guidelines which are already in place, while in some cases concession granted in recent months have been revoked.

These are staffers at the Common Bio-Medical Waste Treatment Facilities (CBWTF), who have collected and disposed of over 1,100 tonnes of Covid-related waste from public and private hospitals in the last 11 months.

According to officials, the project will help the city in faster adoption of e-vehicles by ensuring safe, reliable, accessible and affordable charging infrastructure.

NFDC to become umbrella organisation for Films Division, National Film Archive of India, Children's Film Society of India, Directorate of Film Festivals

The first consignment of 2.64 lakh doses of the vaccine took off for Delhi on a SpiceJet flight soon after 8 am, landing in the national capital a little before 10 am. A GoAir flight to Chennai and an Air India flight to Ahmedabad followed.

The Centre has signed a contract with SII for the supply of 11 million doses of Covishield, the Indian variant of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against the novel coronavirus.

As reported by The Indian Express earlier, under the vertical of affordable housing in partnership (AHP) under PMAY(U), the PMC has taken up the development of five housing projects comprising 2,918 apartments at three different locations in the city, namely Hadapsar, Kharadi and Vadgaon Khurd.

Documents obtained under the RTI ACT show that the Union housing ministry and the MHADA have been corresponding since March 2020, but the issues causing the delay in the release of funds are far from resolved.

According to the district administration, a total of 512 persons who had returned to Pune from the UK between November 25 and December 22 have so far been identified from the data received from various airlines

Among the issues hampering the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin scheme are the fact that many beneficiaries do not own plots to construct houses, the shortage and high cost of sand, and insufficient financial assistance.

According to Ganesh Shetty, President of Pune Restauranteurs’ and Hoteliers’ Association (PRAHA), none of the hotels in the city, including five-star establishments, have been able to finalise plans for New Year parties due to the prevailing uncertainty.

Sales data for various liquor segments -- country-liquor, hard liquor (IMFL), beer and wine -- could serve as an indicator of the social and economic situation in a society.

Can't hold two festivals simultaneously, will announce new dates in about a week, says PIFF Director Jabbar Patel.

The city, which had seen 42 per cent year-on-year growth in terms of warehouse transactions, has benefited from the ever growing demand from e-commerce and third party logistics sector.

Metro Neo is a low-cost urban rail transit system which uses new-generation electric coaches powered by an overhead traction.

In October 2020, PMC had alloted affordable houses being constructed under PMAY(U) to 2,918 poor families but only 731 of them claimed them. Now PMC has announced names of 2,187 fresh allottees urging them to book the unclaimed homes.

The law enforcement officers, however, are having a tough time communicating with the woman—Sitaratnam is a Telugu speaker and knows very little English or Hindi.

According to officials, the woman had travelled to Dubai to look for work as a house help and returned on a Vande Bharat flight after failing to find a job.

Earlier, civic bodies in the state – acting upon guidelines of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) – were releasing advance subsidy to beneficiary families constructing houses under the BLC (Beneficiary Led Construction) component of the PMAY(U) to ensure fast progress of the projects.

Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parab's announcement came after Manoj Anil Chaudhari, a 30-year-old bus conductor employed with the Jalgaon depot of MSRTC, died by suicide on Monday morning.